35 participants have joined for our workshop in Observatoire de Haute-Provence, a beautiful place located South of France. This training session took place while the very first International Year of Astronomy occurs in 2009, proclaimed by the United Nations on Dec. 20th 2007, following UNESCO resolution 33 C/25:

In the course of the COMENIUS project, the 2nd European teacher training session will take place in UK, in the city of Cardiff, Faulkes Telescope Operations Centre.

The dates for the workshop are 22nd August - 25th August. The 22nd and 25th August will be 'travel days' for arrival and departure, with the actual workshops being held on the 23rd and 24th August.

The nearest airport to Cardiff is Cardiff International Airport (code: CWL) and we suggest that you try to fly to this airport if possible. There is also an airport approximately 67km away in Bristol (Bristol airport). If flying to London, then there are regular trains which will bring you to Cardiff Central train station, and the journey time is approximately 2 hours.

In this project you will be shown how to use Faulkes Telescope data to measure the intensity of light from the stars in a cluster (a process known as photometry), through different filters, and plot the colours of the stars on a 'colour-magnitude diagram'. Once a measure of how “red” or “blue” the stars are is made, more informtion about them can be obtained– massive stars are usually very blue (hot), intermediate mass stars (like the Sun) are yellow, and the very lowest mass stars are red (cool).

The “European Hands-on-Universe teacher training and support program” proposal as a COMENIUS multilateral action within the Lifelong Learning framework has been selected by the European Commission (EC), out of 162 proposals.